Kaite O'Reilly
Agent: Conrad Williams
Biography: Kaite is an award-winning playwright, radio film and TV scriptwriter, and dramaturg, based in Wales. Her debut feature film screenplay, The Almond and the Seahorse produced by Mad as Birds Films, will be released in 2024, starring Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Her awards for writing include: winner of Ted Hughes Award, Peggy Ramsay Award, Theatre-Wales Award, Manchester Theatre Prize; she has been a two-time finalist in the James Tait Black Prize for Innovation in Drama and was honoured in International Eliot Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy.
She is a mentor/creative exec’ for transmedia project GALWAD (Unboxed, Sky Arts, October 2022, shortlisted for a 2023 Rose D’Or award and SXSW for innovation), an associate dramaturg for National Theatre Wales and the production dramaturg/narration director for Rambert’s Peaky Blinder’s dance performance/BBC film The Redemption of Thomas Shelby.
A leading figure in disability arts and culture, Kaite’s pioneering plays for disabled and Deaf actors are produced internationally, most recently in Singapore, China and South Korea. She gives keynote speeches and leads masterclasses on the aesthetics of access internationally (China, Portugal, Spain, Singapore, Belgium, Germany in 2022-23). Mentee on Women in Film and TV mentoring scheme 2023.
